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| Mercies Of God Association |
Dr. Peter Nortier | Grand Rapids, Michigan
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 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. 1 Chronicles 29:15 If you possess the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and, Jacob, you, like them, confess...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Blessed SPIRIT of truth! Do thou, LORD, in grace, and love, and compassion, exercise thy kind office, with my poor soul, as the glorifier of CHRIST JESUS! By thy word, and by thy grace in my heart, give me to see, and feel, and know, that, like...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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My heart is an object I do not like to look at; God allows us but one object to look at, and that object is Christ. (1) One object, for Justification. "By one man's obedience, shall many be made righteous. Being justified freely through...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Christ is doing a work in us on earth, while He Himself is in heaven. He is humbling us, purging us, teaching us, mortifying our corruptions, crucifying our inordinate affections, sanctifying us, and so preparing us for heaven. He is making us...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn that they have no wisdom, by the mistakes they make, and that they have no strength, by the slips and falls they meet with. Every day draws forth some new corruption...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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God in the beginning made all things good, glorious, and beautiful. When all things had, in innocence and beauty, the clear impress of His wisdom and goodness upon them, they were very glorious, especially man, who was made for His special glory....[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Scholastic divines speak much of the beatific vision of God, speculating about it. I weary when I read them. Jesus says, "Father, I will that they whom Thou hast given Me be with Me where I am, that they may behold my glory." O! it is...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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"Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more" (Nahum 1:12). There is a limit to affliction. God sends it, and God removes it. Do you sigh and say, "When will the end be?" Remember that our griefs will surely and finally end when...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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It is not necessary for us to search for happiness in dangerous and forbidden paths. The young, inexperienced in the dangers of the world, often wonder why their pious parents are so unwilling that they should acquire a fondness for worldly...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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DUTIES ARE NOT TO BE MEASURED BY SUCCESS, . We have much self-love and self-righteousness in our fallen nature, which cause us to expect success from our spiritual and temporal duties, and to mortified when...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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